Good morning all 🙂
@saturnzoon it's great to see you here over in craft corner! Love your blankets, especially the colours in the leaping stripes. Your pictures in your posts look great 🙂
I hadn't heard of leaping stripes before. It's really interesting! I can kind of see the edge in your blanket that I think you're talking about. Blankets for me usually have one really straight edge (often the edge that is the right side when my work is facing up from memory) and one edge that is a little wonkier.
I had a look at the video you're using and the blanket finishes with a single crochet (US) border which will really help to make it straight. Even the blanket Bella Coco is making has one side that is wonky-ish before the border
Once you've added a single crochet edge you can keep going and do another, or you can look to add a different border. The more you add to the edge, the more even the edge will appear.
I guess that's my long way of saying that I think what you're doing is great and it's looking very 'right' as far as I can see. As long as you're doing what you said in your last post above, and placing that first stitch after turning in the very first stitch of the row, I think you'll be OK.
(There's a video
here that shows very clearly where your first stitch of a row should be going to have the edges as straight as they can be. Might be worth checking that's where you're putting that stitch.)
It is tricky with US and UK terms. I go with US terms. It's what I learnt and most patterns seem to go with US terms from what I've seen. US makes a bit more sense to me in that a single crochet starts with one loop on the hook, double has two, treble has three etc - that's how I remember it. Most patterns will state whether they use US or UK terms.
Hope that helps a bit. Left handed would add an element of difficulty! Looking forward to hearing how you get on with it 🙂
Hi @outlander also. I read that you've been working on yours. How's it getting on? Looking forward to seeing it again if/when you share. I didn't get much of mine done yesterday but hope to do some today. It's only a little cat size blanket so it won't take much longer
Hope today is a good one for anyone reading.
